Web File Share - New Release
Version: 2016.11.07
New features:
The user interface is now mobile-friendly. The control panel can also be accessed from mobile devices.
A new folder listing view mode has been added, optimized for browsing folders with image files.
A "Photos" special folder has been added, showing image files found in your home folder.
Office files can be now opened directly in the desktop Microsoft Office 2013+ apps, no prior download action required.
Added support for Markdown (".md") files with preview and syntax highlighting for editing.
Added Markdown support to file comments.
Weblinked folders can be opened as list view. This is ideal for large folders with files with longer names.
Pasting screenshots and other images from clipboard now works also with Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox (version 50).
Firefox users can upload files by copy/paste from the computer to the browser. Still waiting for other browsers to support this.
Improvements:
Many aesthetic and performance improvements.
Thumbnails are now being loaded only when scrolled into view from the folder listing. This saves server bandwidth, storage space and CPU, and improves considerably the user experience.
Shortening a web link now shortens the link with the currently selected view mode, so one can send, for example, a short link to an image gallery.
Added button for copying the weblink to clipboard.
Web link galleries: photos are sorted by "Date taken", newer photos showing at the top.
Justified the images in the web link galleries, Flicker-style. Added captions on mouse over. Also improved responsiveness.
Added support for URL shorteners other than Google.
Music album covers are shown now as thumbnails also for M4A audio files.
Added user avatar on the OAuth2 consent page.
Added "Login page background" option under "Interface Options" system configuration section for setting either a background image or color. This applies to password protected web links as well.
Added "Help URL" option under "Interface Options" system configuration section. If set, the user interface will show a question mark iconed button on the top menu, next to the users profile button, which will open the URL in a popup window.
The API method "/api.php/files/browse/" can now receive the parameter "details[uuid]" for providing unique ids (UUID V5) for files and folders. This can be used for client-side caching or file synchronization procedures.
Added "singleDownload" parameter when creating weblinks via the API. A temporary, one download, link is being created, without affecting the web link the user might have previously created on the file/folder.
Added API method for fetching file metadata.
Added support for extracting the image size for GIF files.
Removed two clicks from the file commenting process.
Fixes:
Fixed moderate file access vulnerability.
Fixed minor SQL injection vulnerability.
Fixed adding the admin user to the "Can see and exchange files with:" list when editing or adding roles.
Fixed LDAP authentication issue brought by the previous update.
Added orientation detection when generating image thumbnails with GD. It is still highly recommended to enable and use ImageMagick instead.
Fixed the Autodesk plugin which stopped working due to an API change.
Fixed home folder path which was getting altered when editing users with roles with home folder template paths.
Fixed importing "Date taken" info from some non-standard Exif headers.
Fixed possible problem when importing invalid IPTC data.
Added web.config for IIS servers preventing downloads of WOFF font files.
Use less memory for parsing video files for metadata to avoid hitting PHP limits.
Fixed potential MySQL error when moving files/folders that are being accessed at the same time.
Fixed "Change account" from the OAuth2 consent screen, and it now actually logs the user out.
Removed drag highlight after the user interrupted a drag&drop action.
Fixed redirect to login page when accessing the control panel without a valid authentication session.
Searching inside the home folder no longer shows items from the trash folder.
Added OAuth2 workaround for servers running PHP as an Apache module and the Authorization header is missing.
Fixed layout issue with Enterprise version when user space quota is set.
Other changes:
Fixed moderate file access vulnerability.
Fixed minor SQL injection vulnerability.
Fixed adding the admin user to the "Can see and exchange files with:" list when editing or adding roles.
Fixed LDAP authentication issue brought by the previous update.
Added orientation detection when generating image thumbnails with GD. It is still highly recommended to enable and use ImageMagick instead.
Fixed the Autodesk plugin which stopped working due to an API change.
Fixed home folder path which was getting altered when editing users with roles with home folder template paths.
Fixed importing "Date taken" info from some non-standard Exif headers.
Fixed possible problem when importing invalid IPTC data.
Added web.config for IIS servers preventing downloads of WOFF font files.
Use less memory for parsing video files for metadata to avoid hitting PHP limits.
Fixed potential MySQL error when moving files/folders that are being accessed at the same time.
Fixed "Change account" from the OAuth2 consent screen, and it now actually logs the user out.
Removed drag highlight after the user interrupted a drag&drop action.
Fixed redirect to login page when accessing the control panel without a valid authentication session.
Searching inside the home folder no longer shows items from the trash folder.
Added OAuth2 workaround for servers running PHP as an Apache module and the Authorization header is missing.
